It felt like an hour, but it must have been only minutes.” But when the monstrous prehistoric serpent turned its eyes to Carlos, his instincts took over, and he quickly beat feet back to the lodge proper.Ĭaves Branch Jungle Lodge took all security measures to make sure guests were safe, but relocating the beast was a monumental task that took two days. “It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever seen in my life,” said Hernandez, “But while my body told me to run, I spent a long moment just paralyzed in place. Stretching 33 feet long and weighing in at an estimated 900 pounds, this prehistoric relic was wrapped around a tree that it positively dwarfed in comparison, the weight of its massive frame stretching well out to the bank of the river. While out preparing for a tour of the Caves Branch River, Carlos came face to face with a creature that shouldn’t exist.
But on the morning of March 30 th, 2019, he found something he’d be telling his children and the guests of Ian Anderson’s Cave Branch for the rest of his life. And there’s nothing he likes more than introducing Caves Branch Jungle Lodge guests to the local inhabitants of his home: a land with fierce jaguars of Cockscomb Wildlife Sanctuary to the whale sharks that make the barrier reef their home to the vibrant and melodic population of exotic birds that occupy Belize. As a Guiding Department Manager at Caves Branch, he’d been exposed to some of the most exotic and diverse wildlife in the world. Carlos Hernandez thought he’d seen it all.
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